Iran will help to strengthen Syrian air defense capabilities as part of a wider military security agreement between the two countries, Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri said on July 8. The statement was made after the signing of a new military cooperation agreement in Damascus.
The agreement provides for the expansion of military and security cooperation and the continuation of coordination between the Armed Forces of the two countries. Major General Baqeri said that the signed deal “increases our will to work together in the face of US pressure.”
“If the American administrations had been able to subjugate Syria, Iran and the axis of resistance, they would not have hesitated for a moment,” he said.
The major general emphasized that Israel is a “powerful partner” of the US in the war against Syria, claiming that terrorist groups constituted part of the Israeli aggression.
In their turn, the United States and Israel insist that Iran and Hezbollah are responsible for the destabilization of Syria and prepare what they call ‘terrorist attacks’ against the US and Israel. In the framework of this approach, Israel, with direct and indirect help from the US, regularly conducts strikes on various supposedly ‘Iranian targets’ across Syria. Often these strikes concur with large-scale attacks of al-Qaeda-linked groups and ISIS on positions of the Syrian Army and its allies. One of the main points of Israeli concern is the growing military infrastructure of pro-Iranian forces near al-Bukamal, on the Syrian-Iraqi border. Therefore, the announced move by Iran to boost Syrian air defenses, including possible deployment of additional air defense systems, is a logical step for them to take to protect their own interests.
Clashes between the Syrian Army and Turkish-backed militants were ongoing in western Aleppo late on July 8 and early on July 9. According to pro-militant sources, the army destroyed at least one bulldozer and killed 2 members of the National Front for Liberation. Turkish proxies insist that their mortar strikes on army positions also led to casualties.
In southern Idlib, the Syrian Army shelled positions of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham near Ruwaihah after the terrorist group sent additional reinforcements there under the cover of the ceasefire regime. On the morning of July 9th, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham units continued their deployment in the area. Since the signing of the March 5 ceasefire agreement between Turkey and Russia, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham has been openly working to strengthen its positions in southern Idlib. Despite the successes in the conducting of joint Russian-Turkish patrols along the M4 highway, which even reached Jisr al-Shughur, the highway itself and the agreed security zone area along it in fact remain in the hands of Idlib militants.
Pro-ISIS sources claimed that the terrorist group’s cells have ambushed a unit of pro-government forces in the Homs-Deir Ezzor desert destroying at least one vehicle. These claims have yet to be confirmed. However, the situation in central Syria has recently deteriorated due to the increase in ISIS attacks and government forces are now conducting active security operations there.
If the Israeli war crimes are being initiated from non-Syrian airspace maybe they need to consider counter strikes on the airbase of origin in Israel. That might risk escalation but I’m not sure how else they might deter the Israelis except for a return punch in the nose. With Iranian help that should not be too difficult.
I suspect that is what is coming – the establishment of a reciprocal system of responses by the Iranians against the entity’s aggression. The entity would be hard pressed to counter and expose their weakness – the same way as the US was demonstrated to have no effective ability to strike back at Iran.
As for the Russians they can pull back and not be drawn into direct conflict with the US zionazis lobby – any response against Iran or Iranian proxies would be met with more counter attacks directly at the entity and with goyim cannon fodder to take the fall.
Why the S300 supplied to syria in october 2018 have never been used against israeli jets attacking syria ?
Some agreements between russia and israel prevent syria from using them? Russia doesn t want to give any information about the real effectivness of the S300 in real combat situation? Is russia using iran to provide syria with new systems and letting syria actually use them with plausible deniability?
I would be curious to know which iranian systems syria will get.
Laurent, Russia has a tacit agreement with the US and Israel not to active their air defence systems.
The role distribution process also ,involves Russia. Moscow has turned a blind eye to Israeli operations inside Syria and rarely commented on Israel’s actions. In addition, Russia refuses to activate the modern air defence systems it had brought into Syria, especially the S-300 system, as there seems to be a tacit agreement with Washington and Tel Aviv on the issue.
In likely provocation to Russia, Iran lays hand on Syrian air defences
Saturday 11/07/2020
https://thearabweekly.com/likely-provocation-russia-iran-lays-hand-syrian-air-defences
Just how the Great Game is played, never go 100% in anyone’s corner. I would not say that Russia is completely out of the stable of US allies. Key word is completely, Putin is a master game player and as such will keep us guessing. Although I can’t see how the US can sell an alliance with Russia to Americans. Strange times. Perhaps help with Turkey but mostly a certain piece of land in the Pacific might do it.
In that light Russia is also lined up with the US and India to a degree which cannot make Beijing happy.
Why Russia Remains India’s Trusted Ally Despite Moscow’s Bonhomie With China
India’s decision to opt for Russia’s S400 air defence system despite US opposition is a clear example of Delhi’s desire for strategic autonomy
Seema Guha13 July 2020
https://www.outlookindia.com/magazine/story/world-news-why-russia-remains-indias-trusted-ally-despite-moscows-bonhomie-with-china/303412
How India lined up US, Russia on its side of LAC and China was forced to return friendless
China is disengaging from the LAC, and also taking back the message that India has far more friends in the world today. The last 24 hours have truly been PM Modi’s.
JYOTI MALHOTRA 7 July, 2020 11:07 am IST
You’re gonna need some true information than Indian propaganda:
“China and India decided to pull back their forces 1,5 kilometers from the Line of Actual Control (LAC) on Monday following last month’s lethal non-armed clash in the Galwan Valley. This move is being misportrayed by some Indian media as a “Chinese retreat” when in reality it’s anything but since both countries are simultaneously disengaging their forces instead of this just being a unilateral Chinese move like they’re inaccurately making it seem. That narrative observation is the first lesson to be learned from this development.”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/indo-sino-disengagement-decision/5718044
Russia knows the game very well. They’re making profits by selling arms while quietly working on the Greater Eurasia project with China. Indians claim that Russia is on their side, but apparently, Russia is currently working closely with China and Iran than with India.
I just hope that finally the Israelis get the punch in the nose that they’ve been asking for a long time. Everyone knows that it’s the Israelis that are pulling the string’s of the US government. It was Israel that was behind the war in Syria. It is Israel that wants to destroy Syria, and by extension Iran. Enough is enough! You go Iran! Keep up the fight! Death to the New World Order! Long live the axis of resistance!
https://toranja-mecanica.blogspot.com/2020/07/iremos-fortalecer-os-sistemas-de-defesa.html
Saker or Larch a few months back discussed potential areas of disagreement between Iran and Russia in Syria. Would Putin favour a non agreed escalation with Israel!? Hardly.. And/or giving more Russian resources and time for effectively eliminating those 15000!! head choppers, who are yet again, active in too many parts of Syria. Apparently, a few 1000s are now even returning from Libya after the Turkish led fiasco. Dunno – with US elections coming up, Flynn finally exonerated to do some domestic ‘cleaning’ , Deep state, Mossad & Democrats must be pissing themselves with the Maxwell-Epstein cum Zionist mafia finally in the spotlight (Mintpress ref). Trump wants US troops out of Germany, Iraq-Syria, perhaps let the rogue CIA elements with their foreign mercenaries get zapped by long awaited Russian airstrikes & Syrian Tigers. AVOID US body bags before Septmber!! Internal Israeli political in-fighting together with Corona scandals and more Israelis taking flights out.. to the Ukraine perhaps? Does the Golani Brigade still exist as an effective fighting unit along the Lebanese.. I wonder..
The resistance axis has avoided such responses because so long as there is no massive outside intervention, they are going to win this war. So strategically avoiding open war with the. Zionists, renders these Israeli attacks strategically ineffective. They refuse to be distracted from what has been a winning strategy.
But the time is coming when the calculations will push the syrians and iranians to reply on kind to any attack. It is coming very soon it seems.
Mientras exista Israel USA no podrá golpear a Irán como ha quedado demostrado recientemente. Por otro lado la acelerada caída del imperio USA invita a Irán a avanzar sus posiciones en torno a Israel. En cuanto a las limitaciones de Rusia como superpotencia acaban de ser expuestas por Irán a la vista de todos en Venezuela, algo que Damasco no podría pasar por alto. La paciencia estratégica tiene un límite y el doble juego de Putin en Siria ya no da para mucho más.
Google translation,MOD:
As long as Israel exists, it will not be able to hit Iran as recently demonstrated. On the other hand, the accelerated fall of the US empire invites Iran to advance its positions around Israel. As for Russia’s limitations as a superpower, they have just been exposed by Iran for all to see in Venezuela, something that Damascus could not ignore. Strategic patience has a limit and Putin’s double game in Syria is no longer enough.
If the explosions in and near Teheran are sabotage of late, Iran better take care of the home front better.
As for air defense in Syria, one reason Israel is so successful blowing up buildings and arms caches in Syria is security in the Iranian zones where most of these attacks are focused is poor. The Israelis seem to be in on the know where everything is that Iran brings to Syria, through Syria and staged in Syria.
The reason the Russians don’t provide air defense against the Israelis is Russia is not invested in any way in Iran’s national projects that link Iran through Iraq into Syria and then on to Lebanon. Iran has its own national interests and strategic goals. They don’t coincide with Russia’s. Russia came to Syria to save Syria as a nation.And to foster Russia as ME mediator while selling weapons, getting stakes in oil and gas development in the region and wedging aside the US in the region.
And Iran went to Syria cause of moral and ethics… Go figure…
You conveniently forget that it was Iran, specifically Gen. Soleimani (RIP), who convinced Russia to intervene on behalf of Assad in Syria. Up until that moment, the elites of the Russian hierarchy had zero interest in getting involved. To argue that Russia intervened to “save Syria as a nation” is ridiculous and there is no evidence to back up such an assertion. Post-Yeltsin Russia is not guided by ideology, but realpolitik. This is why Russian assistance to Assad always had and continues to have very strict limits.
Many forget that Putin is not a dictator and he faces much opposition within his own government and among his own allies, as well as from the Zionist oligarchs that control Russia’s economy. Furthermore, Russia has always played its own game, which sees it closely allied with Israel, Egypt and Saudi Arabia on other fronts. It’s a similar story with China. Neither Russia nor China wish to see Iran become too powerful, which is why they were pushing so strongly for the JCPOA in collaboration with the near-traitorous neoliberal administration of Rouhani and Zarif, which has given rise to all sorts of fifth columnists and saboteurs to create mischief and attempt to derail Iran’s progress.
The recent parliamentary elections have demonstrated how the Rouhani government has been discredited domestically and lost the support of the masses, while the Sepah (IRGC) has once again emerged as the ultimate power in Iran. Ironically, Trump’s foolish and disgusting decision to murder Soleimani has made Sepah even more powerful than it was before. Everything the US, Israel, and Saudi do against Iran only makes it more powerful and resilient.
It is for such reasons that Syria and Iran share a much different relationship with each other than Syria ever has or ever will with Russia. And it is also why the US (in close cooperation with Saddamites longing for the “good old days,” Zionist collaborators, and other domestic anti-Iranian elements) will never win in Iraq or be able to force Iran out.
Ultimately, everything Ahmadinejad predicted years ago has come true and he was right to push for Iranian self-reliance and the development of the Axis of Resistance with Lebanon/Hezbollah, Syria, Iraq, Houthis, and the Palestinians.
Bingo!! Many thanks your professional and lucid comment. Hopefully as many here should be translated in German, French, Danish and Simple English.. yah know für Deep state, CIA andda Murdochian clone heads!!
” Russia came to Syria to save Syria as a nation.And to foster Russia as ME mediator while selling ”
Not quite. Russia came to Syria to prevent the head choppers from getting to strong and turning on Israhell. Putin’s other function is to prevent Syria from actually winning the war. Finally, Russia is setting up multiple bases there, effectively occupying Syria. Of course also don’t forget the Turkish bases, the Turd occupied lands, and the ZioAmericans. Syria as we know it is gone by design.
The BIG game changer few analysts are talking about yet – but will soon – is the now signed-off series of aggreements between Iran and China involving energy, infrastructure, trade, and technology (including weapons).
At least one of these agreements includes a provision for China to sell / exchange some of its advanced air-defence systems for Iranian oil and gas and exploration / development rights.
This exchange of weapons (and the supply of another advanced air defence sysyem) is likely to free Iran to ‘donate’ some of its much needed and (proven) domestic air-defence capacity (both existing depolyed systems and future factory capacity) to Syria (and potentially to Iraq and Yemen too).
For those who can see past thier noses, this is clearly going to be a BIG issue in the future – especially as China may share other technology with Iran in exchange for securing the exclusive rights to new oil and gas fields in Iran.
A geopolitical and geostrategic offshoot of this contract signing was the development of the India / China crisis in the Kashmir region, which began just as documents had been produced and signitures were beginning to be exchanged (just a coincindence some will say).
There are not enough analysts who understand the massive geo-political issues at stake in the region beyond the obvious and long term actions taken by certain powers to isolate Iran, Russia, and China (and also Pakistan and Afghanistan aka ‘AfPak’) from each other. The creation of an interconnected energy, trade and currency exchange hub in this region is underplayed / not properly acknowledged or even reconised in both MSM and Alt-Media alike.
The new oil and gas deals between Iran and China (and the under the radar Great Siberian Project pipeline between Russia and China) will see China secure its current and future energy needs – enabling it to ‘out produce’ the US in terms of military harware (in times of war as well as peace) and also expeditionary infrastructure (aka foreign bases).
The crisis between India and Iran in the Kashmir border lands becomes clearer when this is understood – the land bridges and the greater project must be prevented. China cannot become a true global superpoer without energy security, and Iran cannot become a regional Hegemon to check mate or superseed Israel whilst isolated to the extent it currently is.
The US and Israel, through agreements with India, are taking a medium to high risk appraoch delay and frustrate, if not to block completely, the creation of several very significant corridors between China, Iran, Pakistan, and the wider Persian Gulf waterway itself (beyond the belt and road).
Were it any other country than China planning pipelines, roads, and rail links through Pakistan and Iran via this region, the project would be classed as very ambitious at best, with some previously near-impossible engineering issues. It would therefore be unlikely we would see a massive ‘friustration’ or ‘maximum pressure’ campain thrown against both Iran and China if the plans were near impossible (as they have been up until the last decade for a large part).
However, China has already shown its ability to throw almost unlimited Human Resources and internal funding at projects when required, and Iran has continued to suprise pretty much the World with its ability to resist the Anglo-American-Israel-Saudi axis.
As these grand projects are real possibilities (including the Trans-Iranian canal linking the Persian Gulf with the Caspian Sea), the US and Israeli supported move by India to confront China in Kashmir was put into play.
The US in particular needs to prevent this plan before it progresses beyond the newly created / updated border highways (known as G219 and G314).
India is playing a danerous ballancing game. If India pushes this a little too far the nation will loose out long term, but in the short term it needs to placate the threat to her soverienty posed by the Anglo American Zionist bankers and military complex she has chosen to sleep with.
India now tread a tight-rope between immediate stability (easily upset by the Anglo American Zionist bangers and Military) and her future integration within the growing Eurasian Union.
I request analysts watch carefully the land bridges being created beyond ‘the belt and road’, and how the evil empire continues to frustrate / delay the inevitable trade-union and physical links between China, Pakistan, Iran, and Russia, and eventually the rest of ‘the Stans’, including US occupied Afghanistan (this occupation neutralised the planned China-Iran road and pipeline project through Afghanistan before it even started).
As far as I am currently aware, the eventual trade, energy, and currency exhange hub is yet to be agreed upon, as both Iran and Pakistan (and even India at one point) were pushing thier deep-water ports as potential Eurasian finance and trade hubs of a similar stature to Hong Kong. However, if the location has been decided I would be pleased if someone to could leave a comment and let me know.
just when I had confidence that the Russians presence and the Syrian achievement in the field wit Russian support was enought to deter Israeli aggression from the air that is exactly what we have had..open and free Israeli air aggression, no Russian response.
Interesting! how does that play to Russian purpose for being in Syria as described by Larchmonter 445..to protect Syrian integrity as a nation? if the Israelis can bomb Syria freely, they will eventually degrade Syrian national integrity to dust, just as surely as the sun rises.
I thought I had come to understand Putin enough to trust him. Second thoughts here..I dont know what Putin is up to. I have again opened up V Putin to interpretation.
the fact that Putin is quite comfortable in the presence of the Zionists as evidenced by all evidence of their meetings, lends solidity to the idea that we must be patient with Putin relative to where he actually stands on the issues he is dealing with. The Zionists do not appear to have a probem with Putin, and that is suggestive….
great to see Iranian confidence and preparedness to go about the issues they are all involved in rather independently. the Iranians do not appear to have great trust in the Russians and go defending their interests on their own. the Iranians appear prepared to bloody the Zionist nose if necessary..in resonse to Zionist aggression.
someone above suggested that ‘Putin’s double game is no longer enough in the Syrian/Iranian/Iraqi/Turkish/Lebananon – Israeli region!’ that read just about right to me.
Bibi was one of the most frequent visitors to the Kremlin, over the past 3 years. The recent secular Russian Jews in Israel (how many 400 000??) are an important demographic element for a country that probably has a net loss in folks quitting. Putin considers these factors, and most unfortunately, how the Russian central Bank is still tied into the Rothschild network. Saker, I think dealt with this surprise info (for me..) about 7 months ago. Israel as is Saudi Arabia are very much Rothies baby and ‘milch cow’ respectively. Sir (BURP!!) Henry KISSINGER passed a Bill in US Congress in 1980s guaranteeing protection and priority funding for that Balfour-Sykes-Picot-Rothie cancer. Finally, Putin more than any other leader feels personally accountable for Russian body bags returning from Syria.. How many.?? . 500 plus including volunteers and others!! .. Whatever, too many!! So let the Iranians take the heat with new Chinese tech support.. Pipelines is still the name of the game, as has been since late 1940s. Russia also has 20000 kilometers of borders to contend with, plus major forest fires and melting permafrost messing up their own pipelines. Remember Putin stressing at Holocaust memorial service in Israel 4 months ago ‘you lost 6 million (supposedly!! my note) we lost 26million..
You’re correct. Russia played its part well and should be given a break now. After all, it’s quite certain that they’d act swiftly if things start going back to a precarious situation of survival for the Assad government.
Iran will surely be able to reduce the Israeli airstrikes in the coming months with these new defense capabilities. It’s better to build defenses and let the enemy suffer to an extent where they’d make one stupid move.
Russian involvement was to protect Syria from the US – a major
power, + political backing… and it achieved it well…
Russia can back down now in Syria… and Iranians can enter the game… why?
well look whats happening in the broader world… the US is no more a threat…
Iran can deal now with whatever comes Syria’s way…
It is like soccer, you can rest your best player in the final minutes of the game
you are leading 2-0
to add, now that Iran is in, this gives Syria more free hand to respond to attacks
without the threat of starting a greater regional war
my advice: bibi should start wearing dipers
I get the Idea!
all quality supportive commentary of Russian strategy and Mr Putin. truthful. logical
I understand accept and reverse myself